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ThanneL.10.1: The lombard capital <T> is five lines high in blue ink with red flourishes. A small guide letter <t> appears in the left
margin. hadde witte a wyf · was hote dame studye

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Þat lene was of lere · and of liche bothe

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She was wonderly wroth · þat witte me þus tauȝte

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And al starynge dame studye · sternelich seyde

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Wel artow wyse quod she to witte · any wysdomes to telle

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To flatereres or to folis · þat frantyk ben of wittes

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And blamed hym and banned hym · and badde hym be stylle

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With suche wise wordes · to wissen any sottes

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And seyde noli mittere man · margerye perlis

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Amanges hogges þat han · hawes at wille

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Þei don but dryuele þer-on draffe were hem leuere

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Þan al þe precious perre · þat in paradys wexeth

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I sey it bi suche quod she þat sheweth bi her werkes

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Þat hem were leuer londe · and lordship on erthe

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Or ricchesse or rentis · and reste at her wille

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Þan alle þe sothe sawes · þat salamon seyde euere

nota

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¶ Wisdome and witte now is nouȝt worth a carseL.10.17: LMR alone among B witnesses have the spelling carse in agreement with C. Other B manuscripts have kerse. Both spellings reflect dialectal variants of "cress" (<OE cressa, cærse).

L.10.218: An unrubricated paraph marker appears in the left margin. Since the scribe failed to skip a line, the rubricating scribe
may have failed to notice it. ¶ Ac astronomye is an harde þynge · and yuel forto knowe

L.10.259-299: A bracket extends down the length of the page in the right margin. But þus it bilongeth to bileue · to lewed þat willen dowel

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For had neuere freke fyne wytte · þe feyth to dispute

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Ne man had no merite · myȝte it ben yproued

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Fides non habet meritum vbi humana racio prebet experimentum

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L.10.263: The rubricating scribe failed to note the original scribe's paraph indicator in the left margin, probably because the original
scribe failed to skip a line. On the other hand, the paraph indicator may have been added later, since it is placed differently
from others, farther into the left margin. ¶ Þanne is dobet to suffre · for þi soules helth

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Al þat þe boke bit · by holycherche techyng

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And þat is man bi þi miȝte · for mercies sake

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Loke þow worche it in werke · þat þi worde sheweth

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Suche as þow semest in syȝte · be in assay yfounde

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Appare quod es vel est esto quod apparesL.10.268: The word est was written in error before esto, then partially erased. There is evidence of a scraped gloss in the left margin, probably nota or a paraph marker.

And owre bakkesL.10.373: The gloss id est panni is written above the line by the scribe. The gloss tells us that bakk- does not mean tergum, "back," but "clothes," "garments." þat moth-eten be · and sen beggers go naked

But if I sende þe sum tokne · and seith non necaberisL.10.379: The scribe originally wrote mecaberis and someone, possibly the original scribe, erased the first minim to make necaberis. Both readings are represented among B manuscripts.

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Is slee nouȝt but suffre · and al for þe beste

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For I shal punysshen hem in purgatorie · or in þe putte of helle

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Vche man for his mysdedes · but mercy it lette

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¶ Þis is a longe lessoun quod I · and litel am I þe wyser

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Where dowel is or dobet · derkelich ȝe shewen

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Many tales ȝe tellen · þat theologye lerneth

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And þat I man made was · and my name yentred

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In þe legende of lyf · longe er I were

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Or elles vnwriten for somme wikkednesse as holywrit wytnesseth

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Nemo ascendit ad celum nisi qui de celo decendit

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¶ I leue it wel quod I bi owre lorde and on no letterure bettere

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For salamon þe sage · þat sapience tauȝte

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God gaf hym grace of witte · and alle his godes after

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He demed wel & wysely as holy writte telleth

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Aristotle & he · who wissed men bettere

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Maistres þat of goddis mercy · techen men and prechen

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Of here wordes þei wissen vs · for wisest as in here tyme

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And al holicherche · holdeth hem bothe ydampned

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¶ And if I shulde worke bi here werkes to wynne me heuene

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Þat for her werkes and witte · now wonyeth in pyne

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Þanne wrouȝte I vnwysely · what-so-euere ȝe preche

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¶ Ac of fele witty in feith · litel ferly I haue

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Þough her goste be vngraciouse · god for to plese

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For many men on þis molde · more sette here hertis

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In good þan in god · for-þi hem grace faillethL.10.404: The second letter of initial In appears to have been added after initial copying, probably in response to the corrector's <+> in the left margin.

And for he biknewe on þe crosse · and to cryste scrofs[h]rofL.10.426: A corrector's <+> marks L's scrof for shrof. Although the spelling scrof is a possible Northern form, it is probably only error here. hym

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He was sonnere saued · þan seynt Iohan Baptiste

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And or Adam or ysaye · or eny of þe prophetes

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Þat hadde yleine with Lucyfer · many longe ȝeres

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A robbere was yraunceouned · rather þan þei alle

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With-outen any penaunce · of purgatorie  to perpetuel blisse

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¶ Þanne Marye Magdaleyne · what womman dede worse

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Or who worse þan dauid · þat vries deth conspired

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Or Poule þe apostle · þat no pitee hadde

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Moche crystene kynde · to kylle to deth

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And benL.10.436: LR lack now before ben, as attested in most B manuscripts. A corrector's <+> in the left margin notes the omission. þise as souereynes · wyth seyntes in heuene

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Þo þat wrouȝte wikkedlokest · in worlde þo þei were

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¶ And þo þat wisely wordeden · and wryten many bokes

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Of witte and of wisdome · with dampned soules wonye

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Þat salamon seith I trowe be soth · and certeyne of vs alle

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Sine iusti atque sapientes · & opera eorum in manu dei sunt &c

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¶ Þere aren witty and wel libbyng ac her werkes ben yhudde

X

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L.10.443: An <X> two lines high appears in the left margin. In þe hondes of almiȝty god · and he wote þe sothe

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Wher for loue a man worth allowed þere · and his lele werkes

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Or elles for his yuel wille · or&L.10.445: L alone initially read or. A corrector's cross appears in the left margin and or is subpuncted. A small superlinear ampersand replaces it. It is barely visible, even with magnification. enuye of herte

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And be allowed as he lyued so · for bi lyther · men knoweth þe gode

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¶ And wherby woteL.10.447: LR alone read wote; most other B manuscripts have a <wi-> form. men whiche is whyte · if alle þinge blake were

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And who were a gode man · but if þere were some shrewe

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For-þi lyue we forth with lither men · I leue fewe ben gode

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For qantoportetvyent en place · yl nyad que pati

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And he þat may al amende · haue mercy on vs alle

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For sothest worde þat euere god seyde · was þo he seyde nemo bonus

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L.10.453: An unrubricated paraph marker appears in the left margin. Since the scribe failed to skip a line, the rubricating scribe
may have failed to notice it. ¶ Clergye þo of crystes mouth · commended was it litel

Souteres and sheperdes · sucheL.10.473: LCr1R lack and before suche, as attested in most other B manuscripts. lewed iottes

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Percen with a pater noster þe paleys of heuene

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And passen purgatorie penaunceles · at her hennes-partyng

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In-to þe blisse of paradys · for her pure byleue

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Þat inparfitly here · knewe and eke lyued

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¶...?...Ȝee men knowe clerkes · þat han cursed þe tyme

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Þat euere þei couth or knewe more · þa.ncredo in deum patrem

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And pryncipaly her pater noster · many a persone hath wisshed

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¶ I se ensamples my-self · and so may many an other

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Þat seruauntes þat seruen lordes · selden falle in arrerage

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But þo þat kepen þe lordes catel · clerkes and reues

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Riȝt so lewed men · & of litel knowyng

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Selden falle þei so foule · and so fer in synne

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As clerkes of holikirke · þat kepen crystes tresore

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Þe which is mannes soule to saue · as god seith in þe gospel

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ite vos in vineam meamL.10.488: This line was actually written to the right of the previous one, probably because the scribe wanted to allow adequate space
below for the ornamented initial capital of the next passus.